I’m making a note here in the hopes that, perhaps, it will help a frustrated gamer out there, somewhere. The issue at hand occurs when you try to launch Team Fortress 2 (TF2), Half-Life (HL, HL2), or Counter-Strike (CS) (any game connected to Steam that uses the HL2 engine). Steam will launch a small window [...]
Photo by Reigh SierraYour computer is on a local network, and for some reason, you need to find the name of the computer you’re sitting at to share files, printers, or anything else over the network. You chose a name when you first installed the operating system unless your computer was bought pre-built from a [...]
So, you’re using WordPress and you just spent hours looking for the perfect theme to fit your new hybrid kitten-and-knitting blog. You upload the theme’s files into the appropriate folder, navigate to the themes page in the administrative interface, and click “activate.” So far, so good, right? Later, you notice that anytime you save a [...]
The problem: This recent discovery–rather, rediscovery– was the final straw, causing me to reformat and reinstall a fresh copy of Windows on my laptop. I had been meaning to do it for a long time (something like 2 years), but I never found myself in the mood. However, something came up, and I needed to [...]
Last April, I reported my findings on how to use Adobe (formerly by Macromedia) Dreamweaver to change the permissions of web files and folders. The versions of Dreamweaver I had used were older, and the only way to accomplish this was to use a command-line interface built into Dreamweaver to enter FTP commands the ol’ [...]
Upon viewing your blog stats generated by the WordPress Stats plugin you see an image that looks like a bar graph with data back to 2003 with two colors, one representing “Region A” and the other, “Region B,” you’re looking at a dummy image that WordPress Stats inserts when something goes awry. (Personally, I think [...]
So, after about a month of wrestling with Ustream.tv and any other web site that imbeds interactive Adobe Flash or Shockwave videos, I decided I should actually take a good look at the error reports that Firefox and Chrome create on crash. I discovered that a module called IPCamera_MJPEG.ax was causing an issue. Normally, IPCamera_MJPEG.ax [...]
